Injuries at different ages [Extra Fabulous Comics]

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You know how they say "kids are resilient" but really it leads to them needing therapy as adults?
I'm convinced a lot of the random physical pains of old age are the delayed effects of those childhood injuries we jumped up from and immediately forgot.
- Children's bones are more flexible since they are still growing. So they are able to take a beating more than adults.
  That is why kicking toddlers is fine! /s
  
  Don't kick the baby!
  
  "someday, I want to go to the moon!"
  "why wait?" punts
  
  Here I am kicking small humans just coz it's fun! Didn't realise they could take it so well!
  
  Kicking toddlers is not fine. They're heavy, have weird aerodynamics, and you're likely to throw out your back as a result.
- A buddy of mine was talking to his doctor not long after he turned 50 and he was complaining about some random pain. The doctor told him "You know all that stupid stuff you did when you were younger? That's what hurts now."
  
  I’m dubious if a doctor would say that. That could be dismissing types of arthritis that has nothing to do with injury.
  Additionally some injuries don’t just immediately stop hurting when you are young. They can linger and get more fragile as you’re older.
  The ones that don’t hurt later like stubbing toes, sure. That is realistic. Getting mowed by a car, not so much.that would stick with you.
- Partially so, but a lot of adult pain is due to bad posture, and weak muscles from lack of exercise. (Weak muscles don't directly result in pain, but it does mean that stuff like "looking in the mailbox weird", or sneezing, or lifting something off the floor can result in stuff going wrong.)
- That is 100% the truth.

I'm 50, and a back injury from my 20s is like "Bonjour my friend, we meet again, ho ho!" It does come back to haunt you.
- Weirdly, my back injury also has a cartoonish French accent.
  
  I always picture my injuries speaking to me in a French accent.
- I'm 53 and some of my pains have totally disappeared.
  Neck used to lock if I twisted my head just right while looking in the mirror. Walked around for 3 days at a time like C3PO. Knee blew out. Broke my femur and that hurt on and off for 10-years. None of that now. Weird.
  
  we need to steal this guys blood
  
  That's really awesome!
  I haven't had issues with my back in years (actually maybe over a decade), but it just came back recently.
- I feel that. I fell on one of my knees on the ice when I was in middle school, and it aches pretty regularly and clicks like a zip drive when I walk.
- As a kid I fell out of a tree flat on my back with the only part not hitting concrete being my head. Still feel that injury come back from time to time
- Legit thought people where being a bit dramatic with back injuries when I was younger, well a few years back and a couple of herniated discs later coupled with sciatica, and... I now think those people where doing very fucking well tbh! Some insanity next level pain!

Exercise everyday, then you at least know you are the cause of your pains.
- Light weightlifting and stretching really helped me my back pain.
  Do it correctly and consistently. I only go like 2 or 3 times a week. It also helps me sleep better.
  
  "Only" 2 or 3 times a week is 2 or 3 times more than most people. Don't do yourself an injustice, you're doing great - carry on.
  
  Yep I'm on a fairly serious routine but not overboard, basically got it down to about 45min sessions 3/4 times a week (every other day kind of), and I feel better than in my 20s!

A few weeks ago, I was lying in bed. Literally all I was doing was moving to turn and I pulled a muscle in my leg. Getting old fucking sucks.
- My last major back injury was from hanging washing on a clothes horse.
  
  Just picturing someone clothespining their laundry to a horse's mane. Don't correct me please :)

I woke up with horrible neck pain because apparently I did that thing I've been doing every day for my entire life, sleeping, wrong.
- See that's where you went wrong. You gotta sleep right. Train your subconscious to not... Who am I kidding, I'm in the same boat. I now have an alarm an hour before I need to get up just so I can take some motrin. Gives it enough time to kick in so I can get up with less pain.

I simply used my arm to grab something light within my reach and my back buckled. Now I've had sciatica for seven weeks. Piriformis syndrome is no fucking joke! Fuck the human body!
- If you insist. 😏

This is my experience exactly. I'm sure the injuries of youth are why I'm so randomly and easily injured in middle age.
Coincidentally, in my twenties one of my friends was hit by a car going 30 MPH, and he got up, and kept partying the rest of the night. No serious consequences at all.

I literally did this opening my fridge lmao. I just wanted olives. :(

It really do be like that. But also, cars are too big and drivers are too selfish.

No joke, not only are kids bones more "rubbery" and difficult to break, if they do manage to break it they're gonna be in a cast for like a couple weeks and that's it.
If an adult breaks something that's gonna be like 3 MONTHS of cast time (minimum) AND most likely some form of stupid physical therapy :/

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